Your knowledge that what happens by fate does not happen by or according to what you intend or decide, and that most of what occurs does so without your tadbir, and little of what you plan actually takes place

The intelligent person does not build his house on shaky ground. Tell me, when will your house be completed and all the while the Decrees destroy it?

As the poet said: "When will the day come when the building reaches its completion if you build it and other than you destroys it?"

And if the tadbir is from you, and the Decree goes against what you decide and plan, then what is the benefit of tadbir which the Decrees do not support? It is more befitting that the tadbir be with the One in Whose Hands are the reigns of fate,

as the poet said: "When I saw the Fate proceeding on its course without doubt in it and without suspicion, I relied truthfully upon my Creator and cast myself with the flow (of the Decree)."

Ibn 'Ata' Allah Al-Iskandari - Illuminating Guidance on the Dropping of Self-Direction

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